PhD. Candidate, Psychology, Quantitative Psychology (Minor)

University of Toledo

Toledo, OH (USA)

2024 - 2019

• Teaching and Research Assistant

M.S., Psychology, Psychological Assessment (Area)

Universidade São Francisco

Campinas, SP (Brazil)

2019 - 2018

• Thesis: …
• Teaching Assistant

Specialization in Neuroscience (300 hrs)

Universidade Federal de São Paulo

Santos, SP (Brazil)

2019 - 2018

• Thesis: …

B.S., Psychology

CEULP/ULBRA

Palmas, TO (Brazil)

2017 - 2012

• Thesis: …
• Teaching and Research Assistant

Normative Data Collection Coordinator (Research Assistant)

N/A

Rorschach Perfomance Assessment System (R-PAS)

Current - 2021

• Organize international data collection across 17 countries.
• Provide resources for data collectors
• to be update

Translation and Adaptation of the Personality Assessment Inventory to Portuguese (Research Assistant)

N/A

N/A

Current - 2020

• Assist in all drafts and analysis.
• Organize and clean items for translation.
• Backtranslation (Portuguese to English).
• Run psychometrics (e.g., internal consistency, validity studies, norms).

Teaching Assistant

N/A

The University of Toledo

2021 - 2019

• Statistical Methods 1 (for grad student)
• Statistical Methods 2 (for grad student)
• Personality (for undegrad)
• Statistics (for undergrad)

Teaching Assistant

N/A

Universidade São Francisco

2019 - 2018

• Thesis advising I (for undegrad)
• Thesis advising II (for undergrad)

Teaching Assistant

N/A

CEULP/ULBRA

2017 - 2014

• Morphophysiology and human behavior
• Methods of psychological assessment
• Psychological assessment
• Neuropsychological assessment

Javascript for Shiny Users

RStudio::conf 2020

N/A

2020

• Served as TA for two day workshop on how to leverage Javascript in Shiny applications
• Lectured on using R2D3 package to build interactive visualizations.⁵

Data Visualization Best Practices

DataCamp

N/A

2019 - 2019

• Designed from bottom up course to teach best practices for scientific visualizations.
• Uses R and ggplot2.
• In top 10% on platform by popularity.

Improving your visualization in Python

DataCamp

N/A

2019 - 2019

• Designed from bottom up course to teach advanced methods for enhancing visualization.
• Uses python, matplotlib, and seaborn.

Advanced Statistical Learning and Inference

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department

Nashville, TN

2018 - 2017

• TA and lectured
• Topics covered from penalized regression to boosted trees and neural networks
• Highest level course offered in department

Advanced Statistical Computing

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department

Nashville, TN

2018 - 2018

• TA and lectured
• Covered modern statistical computing algorithms
• 4th year PhD level class

Statistical Computing in R

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department

Nashville, TN

2017 - 2017

• TA and lectured
• Covered introduction to R language for statistics applications
• Graduate level class

Using AWK and R to Parse 25tb⁷

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

N/A

2019

• Story of parsing large amounts of genomics data.
• Provided advice for dealing with data much larger than disk.
• Reached top of HackerNews.

Classifying physical activity from smartphone data⁸

RStudio Tensorflow Blog

N/A

2018

• Walk through of training a convolutional neural network to achieve state of the art recognition of activities from accelerometer data.
• Contracted article.

The United States of Seasons⁹

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

N/A

2018

• GIS analysis of weather data to find the most ‘seasonal’ locations in United States
• Used Bayesian regression methods for smoothing sparse geospatial data.

A year as told by fitbit¹⁰

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

N/A

2017

• Analyzing a full years worth of second-level heart rate data from wearable device.
• Demonstrated visualization-based inference for large data.

MCMC and the case of the spilled seeds¹¹

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

N/A

2017

• Full Bayesian MCMC sampler running in your browser.
• Coded from scratch in vanilla Javascript.

The Traveling Metallurgist¹²

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

N/A

2017

• Pure javascript implementation of traveling salesman solution using simulated annealing.
• Allows reader to customize the number and location of cities to attempt to trick the algorithm.

Great paper? Swipe right on the new ‘Tinder for preprints’ app¹³

Science

N/A

2017 - 2017

• Story of the app Papr¹⁴ made with Jeff Leek and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan.

Swipe right for science: Papr app is ‘Tinder for preprints’¹⁵

Nature News

N/A

2017 - 2017

• Second press article for app Papr.

The Deeper Story in the Data¹⁶

University of Vermont Quarterly

N/A

2016 - 2016

• Story on my path post graduation and the power of narrative.

The Great Student Migration¹⁷

The New York Times

N/A

2016 - 2016

• Most shared and discussed article from the New York Times for August 2016.

Wildfires are Getting Worse, The New York Times¹⁸

The New York Times

N/A

2016 - 2016

• GIS analysis and modeling of fire patterns and trends
• Data in collaboration with NASA and USGS

Who’s Speaking at the Democratic National Convention?¹⁹

The New York Times

N/A

2016 - 2016

• Data scraped from CSPAN records to figure out who talked and past conventions.

Who’s Speaking at the Republican National Convention?²⁰

The New York Times

N/A

2016 - 2016

• Used same data scraping techniques as Who’s Speaking at the Democratic National Convention?

A Trail of Terror in Nice, Block by Block²¹

The New York Times

N/A

2016 - 2016

• Led research effort to put together story of 2016 terrorist attack in Nice, France in less than 12 hours.
• Work won Silver medal at Malofiej 2017, and gold at Society of News and Design.

Aplicativo de administração remota do R-PAS: Dados preliminares de equivalência (R-PAS Remote Administration Application: Preliminary equivalence data)

N/A

N/A

N/A

• presentation

Avanços digitais na aplicação do teste de Rorschach: Desenvolvimento do aplicativo de administração do R-PAS (Digital advances in the administration of the Rorschach test: Development of the R-PAS administration app)

N/A

N/A

N/A

• presentation

Avanços digitais na aplicação do teste de Rorschach: Uso do aplicativo de administração do R-PAS (Digital advances in the administration of the Rorschach test: Use of the R-PAS administration app)

N/A

N/A

N/A

• presentation

One for All and All for One: Culture, Personality, and Governmental Policies Predicting Mask-Wearing in an International Sample

N/A

N/A

N/A

• presentation

Opções e Desafios da pesquisa com Testes de Perfomance em tempos pandêmicos (Options and Challenges of Research with Performance Tests in Pandemic Times)

N/A

N/A

N/A

• presentation

Beyond the ‘Mask Wars’: Cross-national comparison of health protective behaviors, government compliance, and empathy

N/A

N/A

N/A

• presentation

The Pfister colored pyramid test and its use in C/TA

N/A

N/A

N/A

• presentation

Sistema de Avaliação por Performance no Rorschach: Uma Breve Introdução ao R-PAS (Rorschach Perfomance Assessment System: A brief introduction to R-PAS)

N/A

N/A

N/A

• presentation

Sistema de Avaliação por Performance no Rorschach Itermediário: Administração e Codifição (Intermediate Rorschach Performance Assessment System: Administration and Coding)

N/A

N/A

N/A

• presentation

Rorschach and Depressive Behaviors: Potential depressive related behaviors discriminating patients with and without depressive symptoms and controls

N/A

N/A

N/A

• presentation

Assessing Potential R-PAS Score Differences for Inperson and Remote Administration

N/A

N/A

N/A

The influence of emotional valence over Source Memory in Aging Paper Presentation

ENAR 2020

N/A

2020

• conferencePaper
• How and why building an R package can benefit methodological research

What do we know about the Source Memory in Aging? A review Paper presentation

RStudio::conf 2020

N/A

2020

• presentation
• Focus on how software development and methodological research can improve both benefit when done in tandem.

Assessing Potential R-PAS Score Differences for In-Person and Remote Administration

Bioinformatics

N/A

2020

• presentation
• See landing page²² for more information.

Comparing committed Forensic Inpatients to Non-Patients Instructed to Malinger Insanity of Not Using Scores from the Rorschach task and Self-report

Chest

N/A

2019 - 2019

• thesis

Impacto de Exergames na qualidade de vida de idosos

RStudio::conf 2019

N/A

2019 - 2019

• conferencePaper

Sentiment Analysis in Rorschach responses e-poster for online conference.

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Seminar Series

N/A

2019 - 2019

• conferencePaper

Relation between R-PAS and BFI2 moderate by R-PAS self-perception indicators: preliminary studies Paper presentation

Under-Review (copy available upon request.)

N/A

2019

• conferencePaper
• Analysis done using method built for my dissertation.

Comparing Patients with Schizophrenia to Non-Patients Instructed to Malinger Insanity or Not Using Scores from the Rorschach Task and Self-Report

Under-Review (copy available upon request.)

N/A

2019

• presentation
• Analysis done using method built for my dissertation.

Malingering severe psychopathology on the Rorschach task: Systematic review and meta-analysis

Under-Review (copy available upon request.)

N/A

2018 - 2018

• journalArticle

Coding criteria for Breaking the Card Boundary (BCB)

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Qualification Exam

N/A

2017 - 2017

• presentation
• Successfully met qualifying examination standards

Asymmetric Linkage Disequilibrium: Tools for Dissecting Multiallelic LD

Journal of Human Immunology

N/A

2015 - 2015

• journalArticle

Funcionamento patológico da personalidade para predição da depressão, qualidade de vida e esperança

International Association of Great Lakes Research Conference

N/A

2015 - 2015

• manuscript

A cross-cultural investigation from nine countries of empathic and antisocial profiles’ adherence to COVID-19 containment measures

Journal of Great Lakes Research

N/A

2015 - 2015

• thesis